Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
JONATHAN EDWARDSHow can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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